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SPRINGFIELD — More than 1,000 Chicago-based union members flooded the Capitol Wednesday to decry Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s push for legislation to scale back city government worker pensions.

The rally was a symbolic show of force, given that a pension bill is unlikely to emerge until much later in the spring session. But union members from the We Are One Chicago coalition sent a message, chanting “Rahm Emanuel’s Got to Go,” and calling for Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis to run against him.

Lewis earned cheers from the boisterous crowd as she ripped the mayor and lawmakers for using the term “pension reform,” suggesting that the ideas under discussion to rein in the...

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